Today marks my 1-month anniversary of moving to Tokyo, things are beginning to calm down around me nowadays. For example I don't spend my weekends with building IKEA furniture anymore... I've also had my hair cut. It almost feels like I'm living here... Oh wait...

But sometimes I still encounter situations in unexpected places, where my language skills are not quite enough yet. For example, there was the bank thingy (okay okay, it was still at the start), and the bedding ware story last week, but there have been quite a few others as well.

For example, when I wanted to buy some washing powder and fabric softener, I only realized in the shop that I have no idea how they are called in Japanese... (Hell, I'm not even sure I got their English names right...) But after searching and meditating for about 30 minutes, I found some washing powder (okay okay, liquid). I also found some softener (at least I think that's what I bought), 2 weeks later, that is...

And the other day I almost bought some hair conditioner when I wanted to buy a deodorant. Fortunately I noticed in time that something like "it makes your hair so shiny and sparkly" was written on it. Then I thought "well, I guess I certainly don't need such a fancy deodorant..." Then I found some regular one too, 2 shops later... Of course, I'm sure the other shops had some too...

I won't even mention that in case of a lot of foods that I eat here, it's not just their names that I don't know, but I have no idea what creature they were made of... Oh wait, I ended up mentioning it... Fortunately I haven't encountered any that I didn't like.

On another note, I was the most nervous before going to the hairdresser. I had no confidence that I'd be able to explain to him what to do with my hair, but in the end, everything went fine there. At least I didn't get bald, or anything. Although the next day the others asked me, if I had joined the army, or what?...

Many of you have asked me to write about Japan, how's my life here, what's happening to me, etc. That's why I've created this blog, here I'll try to share with all of you every important, unimportant, interesting and boring things that I see / hear / experience here.